{"id":263286,"date":"2025-11-05T12:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263286\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:11:20","slug":"these-patients-have-a-family-doctor-but-theyre-hours-away-the-hidden-health-care-struggle-for-thousands-in-ontario-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263286\/","title":{"rendered":"These patients have a family doctor, but they\u2019re hours away. The hidden health-care struggle for thousands in Ontario &#8211; Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiggJBVV95cUxOXzJHTGtuWG8wVHI1VGlBaTAyWXFsRzFyR3otaGg3SXFwRkxxU0c0dXAzeEl3WHZlMXI3dFkxNWpSOWtYMXlSdnZjWjlROUVQbm12dTdJeGNUVWtQRFpIYmlUNjI5MWZsSjBlNDdkWjNOVkMya3cyXzlLbE5CV0YyWC1fQUhmRDlUWWNhbEhzbDRmZEdERVFqRkJKVndwZ2hQaWZJY2twdkJiQlZ0ekxncWNxQjZiNUx5RDc4dXhqbkhEV21qcjRzWXE5UXZVOGw4dUVINkFPbWxJd1ZweTB6enBwXzQ5QUE2QWw2bHF4S255VE5GVkhWeGh4dkpYMjhvUkE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">These patients have a family doctor, but they\u2019re hours away. The hidden health-care struggle for thousands in Ontario<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Toronto Star<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiUkFVX3lxTE1zak9vYlgxV2NtejZaamx5T1RXeHd6YURoRTVQbjZlNXViT2FUNi1sYXd1c1RQbklYM2xiNjlfWDBzTUNPcmNVVUduUVBRLXBaR1E?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Distance to primary care and its association with health care use and quality of care in Ontario: a cross-sectional study<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CMAJ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixAFBVV95cUxOams1WEtQYlpTRHJhSHNFRU01TU9reDNtcWRaTXMyVFFRQjVUVDlCUTJOd1I0NlFOVDJFRF9ua19jQkxNVnN5cFBiV1VleHI5cE9tZ182ZGt3MWZmMkxOM0stZ1luLUxQc1BfN01OYmpONkxPcFA4WnJldVZ0Y3hxS25nY09XbFdGaG1GOGxnMGtsYTZsM21oRl9ELTIxS1VwRGNPWGdBRHpDbmVLVl9UOGZmNVpGUFJ0M1dPVVlDVEpOREZz?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More than 1.2 million Ontarians travel 30 kilometres or more to see family doctor: study<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CTV News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxPTklBbDU4cTdYR3lrUGF0QUZTSlRDdW8wTWJ4Mkc4Sy02ZnVCU3Etc1llenhOVUpjbF9lZ05HdHRILTQtbTdrVW4zbUxxNTdXWHpIVFV4LW96bDRPeDR3aS1hU3dPSm1wdW9Va2g0VXBsQTNmemlHTkszeUlDcTRsTjJkdmh0YjRXNmJ2bnlsZkdtS3M3RFJLOU5FbzlxSGxEal90Yjd1UVJJUFBvU1lBZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Study finds distance between family doctors and patients can be barrier to care<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CHCH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These patients have a family doctor, but they\u2019re hours away. The hidden health-care struggle for thousands in Ontario&nbsp;&nbsp;Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-263286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}